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World Food PRize Award Coverage

The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that the 2023 World Food Prize Laureate is Heidi Kühn, CEO and Founder of Roots of Peace. Kühn talks to ABC7 News about her award and the nonprofit's ongoing efforts. Watch the coverage here

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ABC News Anchor Reports

Cheryl Jennings consistently reported on Roots of Peace since 2001, traveling to Afghanistan and Vietnam to visit our farmers. Watch her ABC News segments.

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Articles

ABC7: Bay Area nonprofit, winemaker turning Ukraine’s minefields into vineyards

Kron4, Hundreds of North Bay nonprofit workers trapped in Afghanistan

ABC7 TV SF: Bay Area nonprofits face dangerous challenge in bringing Afghan workers to US

ABC7 TV SF: San Rafael nonprofit pleads for help evacuating 360 Afghan employees in Kabul

ABC: Head of nonprofit working in Afghanistan urges Biden to help evacuate employees

KCBS Radio: A Marin based nonprofit is trying to evacuate 360 employees from Afghanistan

ABC News, ’Catastrophic’: Bay Area nonprofit founders growing desperate to rescue Afghan employees in Kabul

ABC News, Marin couple flies home after trying to rescue employees in Afghanistan

PBS News Hour: Taliban takeover threatens Afghan agriculture

KCBS Radio: Bay Area NGO transforms warzones into agricultural zones

Kron4, ’It was a nightmare’: Afghan family arrives to the Bay Area

ABC News: Afghan refugee family safely lands in Bay Area with helps from Roots of Peace

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael-based Roots of Peace welcomes home first employee from Afghanistan

KCBS Radio: Bay Area NGO transforms warzones into agricultural zones

ABC News: Bay Area nonprofit won’t give up on Afghan women

Asia Sentinal, 2020: Cleaning Up the Scars of US War in Vietnam

Marin Voice: Gandhi Award crystalizes mission for Marin-based Roots of Peace

The Rotarian Magazine: A Vine Idea

Cision, 2019: Roots of Peace and The Leonardo Museum Announce New Partnership to Create Exhibit on Innovation and Global Impact 

Press Releases

Awards

Cal Berkeley Award for Excellence & Achievement 2002

Rotary International ‘Service Above Self’ Award

Earth Ethics Award — Nobel Family

‘Walk the Talk’ Award—UN Environmental Programme

The Jefferson Award

Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Peace

University of the Pacific Women’s Leadership Award

Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Award 2006

Marin Women’s Hall of Fame

WANGO Award

Mahatma Gandhi SEVA Medals 2019